Information technologies (IT) together with the
development of formalized model-based approaches for analysis offer great
potential to deal with the complexity of construction projects. My research builds on the previous work
done on integrated product and proves models and extends it so as to model an
information-rich history of a project and a facility to support decision-making
during construction planning and execution, and facility management. While working on creating such a project
history model, I leverage the data that can be collected using emerging sensing
and data capture technologies.
Creating information-rich project history models
and the corresponding analyses starts with having reliable plans and estimates
prior to construction, followed by complete situation awareness and assessment
achieved through an information- and data-rich as-built model during
construction. My research
activities to date can be grouped under the following two
categories:
(1)
Approaches for achieving reliable construction schedules and
estimates
Within this area, my
students and I have done work on the following topics
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Identifying
and managing time-space conflicts on construction sites
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Modeling and
reasoning about equipment spaces
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Distributed-scheduling on construction
sites.
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Information
dependency analysis of the agents within construction project teams (http://www.ce.cmu.edu/~ess).
(2)
Approaches for situation awareness and assessment via information-rich as-built
models.
Within this area, I and my
students have been working on the following topics:
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Sensor-based
Defect Management on Construction Sites (http://www.ce.cmu.edu/~itr).
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Embedded
Commissioning (http://www.ce.cmu.edu/~bc).
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Development of
construction project histories to support cost estimating
Anu Pradhan, Formalization of multi-source data fusion to
support construction productivity monitoring 05/2009
(expected).
Pingbo Tang,
Automated feature extraction from data collected by laser scanners, 05/2009
(expected).
Fernanda Leite, Computational Support for First Responders.
(co-advising with Prof. Omer Akin) 05/2009
(expected)
Asli Akcamete,
Maintaining and updating building information models throughout the life cycle
of facilities (co-advising with Prof. Jim Garrett), 12/2009
(expected)
Guzide Atasoy, TBD, 05/2010
(expected)
Jan Reinhardt, Navigational
Models For Effective And
Efficient Interaction With Integrated Product And Process Models On
Construction Sites (co-advised with Prof. Jim Garrett) December
2003. Dr. Reinhardt is currently the Program Manager of Virtual Design and
Construction at Turner Construction.
Esin Ergen, Formalization of life-cycle
data management of pre-engineered components using advanced tracking
technologies, (co-advised with Dr. Rafael Sacks), 12/2005. Dr. Ergen is
currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at
Frank
Boukamp, Modeling
of and Reasoning about Construction Specifications for Automated Defect
Detection. 05/2006, Dr.
Boukamp is currently a tenure-track Assistant
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Illinois, at
Urbana-Champaign.
Kevin Tantisevi, Formalization and Automation of
Generation of Equipment Spaces on Construction Sites, 05/2006. Dr. Tantisevi
is currently a software engineer at Bentley Systems, Inc.
Hongjun Wang, (co-advised with Prof. Jim Garrett). Domain-Oriented Semi-Automated Model Matching for Supporting
Building Commissioning-Related Data Exchange,
05/2006. Dr. Wang is
currently a software engineer at ANSYS.
Chris Gordon, A
Formalism and a Framework for Planning of Sensor-Based Inspections on
Construction Sites, (co-advising
with Prof. Jim Garrett)
, 12/2006. Dr. Gordon is currently a tenure track
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Southern University of Illinois at
Edwardsville.
Semiha Kiziltas. An automated approach for
developing integrated model-based construction project histories to support
estimation of activity production rates, 05/2008. Dr. Kiziltas will be a tenure track
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at
DeWitt Latimer, Estimating the Cost of Software Components in Civil System development Using Function Point Analysis, 05/2002. (co-advised with Prof. Jim Garrett)
Kevin Tantisevi, An Approach for Automating the generation of the Generation of a Simulation Model of Construction Processes from a Schedule, 05/2002.
Subhash Tuladhar, Distributed
Constraint-based Scheduling on Construction Sites.” August
2004.
Sharad Oberoi. “Functional Requirements for
CAD and GIS integration.” May 2006.
Jerry Himes. “Situation Awareness
for Lean Construction.” May 2006.
Xing Wu. “ Model-based Sensor-Enabled Water Management.” May 2006.
Ziqi Chen, Data fusion to support facility management.”
August 2007.
Saurabh Taneja
(being advised jointly with Prof. Jim Garrett) Formalization of data fusion to
support facility managers and first responders (12/2008).
Thomas Hendrickson. “Experiments for assessing the
reliability of RFID signal strength.” Summer, 2006.
(REU student)
Malena M. Yablinsky. “Evaluation of Laser Scanner Data from Construction Job Sites using
a Commercially Available System.” 05/2005-2006.
(REU student)
Arthur Goh. “Utilization
of RFID tags for storing and accessing environmental impact information.” 2004-2005 (Honor’s Thesis); co-advised with Prof. Cliff
Davidson.
Allison Spare. “Construction
Inspection Process Models.” Summer
2004.
Sarah Schrass, A framework for Classification of Defects on Construction Sites. Summer, Fall, 2002, Spring, 2003.
Martha Alunkal, Assessing the Role of Surveyors and Inspectors on Construction Sites. Summer, 2002.
Linda Wang, Network Organizations and Construction Project Teams. Spring 2003 (Honor's Thesis).
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